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Dave Hollins: Space Cadet was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 June 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Red Dwarf. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

The Temporary Absence Of Rimmer[edit]

This isn't explained from a real world point of view : the actor Chris Barrie got to make a BBC 1 sitcom called The Brittas Empire, where he was the star. For a time it became extremely successful, and as production duly increased he had to drop out of Red Dwarf (where he wasn't the star and that sitcom was on BBC 2 so was less popular and less in demand by viewers and the BBC). As the popularity of the Brittas Empire series duly faded and it was axed though, he was duly able to return to Red Dwarf again.

Logo[edit]

Just as an aside for the logo caption, the 1989-91 and post 2016 logos are clearly a different serif serif font to the ones used in the original DVD set and on screen from 1992 (that are serif). For instance, this Digital Spy article specifies the 2016 logo as resembling the font and logo of "the early series". TardisTybort (talk) 22:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting notice[edit]

In Once Upon a Time... Space, there was spaceship that kind of looks like SS JMC Red Dwarf

Io99 (talk) 18:21, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing on British Sci-Fi TV category page[edit]

This Red Dwarf tv series is entirely missing from the category list of British TV science fiction series found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_science_fiction_television_shows Chaseholden (talk) 03:00, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing in British tv science fiction[edit]

This Red Dwarf tv series is entirely missing from the category list of British TV science fiction series found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_science_fiction_television_shows

Chaseholden (talk) 03:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]